Do not be afraid, for I am with you;
I will bring your children from the east
and gather you from the west.
Isaiah 43:5

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Just a Couple MINOR Deals the Past Couple Weeks

It's been an interesting couple of weeks around here. We've had two incidents, one turned out to be very minor (but could've been permanent - sort of), and the other was sort of major (and WILL be permanent). I'll start with the almost permanent one . . .

One of my daughter's left a GREEN Shar*ie marker, the other one found it. The finder of the PERMANENT marker used it to mark up her eye, unusually, it didn't go into her mouth! After scolding the leaver of the marker, the finder went into the bathtub. Would you believe that it came pretty much right off?! I just knew we were going to take a green eyed baby to church the next day - minor catastrophe avoided.

The next incident started off with a phone call. "Is this Conner's mom?" "Yes." "This is so and so nurse at the 6th and 7th grade center. Conner has had an incident with some scissors and cut his finger pretty bad." "Is he OK? Does he need stitches? Do I need to come get him?" "Well, he's kind of "shocky" and it's bleeding pretty bad. We can't get the bleeding to stop." "Alright, I will be there in about 10 minutes." After locating Lyndal (he was at the bank) and having him meet me in the parking lot to watch the two little onesI went into the school. Conner was very pale and clammy and had his finger all wrapped up. I asked the nurse if we needed to have it looked at. "There's nothing to stitch up, but he got a "bleeder" and it just won't stop bleeding. I would have it looked at if I were you." I got Conner in the van and asked him what he thought. He was just a little beside himself. He doesn't handle blood well at all. But I hadn't seen the injury and didn't know if he just had a little cut or what. We tried to unwrap it and didn't get very far and decided to go ahead and go. To make a long story short, they gave him a shot in the wound to numb it, put silver nitrate on it to stop the bleeding, bandaged him up and sent us on our way. The nurse that bandaged him up said to "just put a band-aid on it"! Can you believe that?! It started getting infected, so we had to go to our pediatrician, get some antibiotics, doctor's orders to take it easy in PE, and they bandaged it up like a light-bulb. They were very surprised that the other nurse told us to just put a band-aid on it. He's going to have a pretty good chunk out of the side of his finger, and somewhere in Science class there's a bit of a finger. If you find it please let us know. We used to be attached to it.

About Me

I am a wife to a wonderful man, and a mother of five beautiful, healthy children. If I had time, I would get organized, read, research stuff, exercise (pressing on!), and take more naps. We live in the great state of Oklahoma. Life is good. God is great!

A List of Common Adoption World Abbreviations and Terms

SWI - Social Welfare Institution, the orphanage, but also sometimes an orphanage and a home for the elderly

SN - Special Need, some of the families request a child with a special need, we have chosen not to

LID - Log In Date, the date your dossier is officially logged in in China

Travel Group - All the other families who have the same DTC/LID date as we do and we will all travel together unless one of them chooses a child with a special need. Usually all the referrals in a group come from the same orphanage, which will be another thing we will have in common with our travel group.

I-171h - a PPP that we waited 6 weeks on so we could finish our dossier

USCIS - United States Citizenship and Immigration Services

Bethany - Our adoption case worker at Dillon who is very patient and has a great sense of humor

Dillon - Our adoption agency, which we love, is based in Tulsa, but serves many parts of the country, and it's Christian based

PPP - Pretty Peace of Paper, once you have received the pesky one it becomes the pretty one ;)

PPP - Pesky Piece of Paper, which is any piece of important paper you are waiting on

Referral - The first picture you see of the child you have been matched with and a brief medical history